Identify leaders from every sector who can join a task force to jointly plan for and implement a coordinated effort
- Communicate with the public to share considerations and decisions about when to start reopening – prepare them that 15 days may not be long enough and will depend on a variety of factors, which look different from community to community.
- Identify organizations serving at risk and underserved populations and help them prepare
- Access critical gaps in resources and supply chain
- Medical equipment
- Food supply
- Cleaning and disinfection products
- Identify childcare for critical infrastructure workforce
- Healthcare workers
- First responders
- Teachers and school administrators
- Utility company staff
- Mental health professionals
- Begin planning for an orderly return to daily life
- Identify leaders from every sector who can join a task force to jointly plan for a coordinated effort
- Work with public health authorities to determine which interventions should continue and identify local factors that might assist determining when and how to resume services.
- Local factors to examine
- Local spread
- Strain on critical infrastructure
- Supply chain relief
- Public mood, tolerance and community resilience
- Local factors to examine
- For those interventions that should remain in place, consider how to lessen the adverse effects of them
- Prepare public communication materials to explain what people can do to alleviate the negative effects of interventions that remain in place.
- Prepare the public that this may be a slow, staged progression back to normalcy
- Restrictions will be lifted as soon as it is safe to do so
- Communities need to stick together to help one another through these challenging times